The answer to Wordle #1,085 was

HENCE: In the future from now.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Word difficulty: Moderate

Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.

Compare past puzzle difficulty →

How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,085 scores 84/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).

11 Possible answers after CRANE
110 Possible answers after SLATE
199 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Words in the _ENCE family
4 Guesses in the solver replay

This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →

Wordle #1,085, measured

This section compares HENCE's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.

Solver difficulty, as a percentile

84/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, HENCE measured harder for the solver than about 84% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats E; the example solver route takes four turns.

Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.

CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark

CRANE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 11 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 199 candidates, about 18 times as many. AUDIO came back all gray. None of its letters appear in HENCE. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against HENCE, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
CRANE CRANE 11
TRACE TRACE 15
ARISE ARISE 62
RAISE RAISE 62
STARE STARE 90
TARSE TARSE 90
SLATE SLATE 110
SALET SALET 172
AUDIO AUDIO 193
ADIEU ADIEU 199

“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.

Contributed player ratings

Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →

What did you get?

Tap your result to compare it with contributed games. Your choice stays in this browser and is not sent anywhere.

1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 Suppressed
4 Suppressed
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 26 contributed games across every completed puzzle. The Observatory does not publish per-puzzle guess distributions below its sample threshold, so this is the broadest available comparison. “Suppressed” marks a low-count cell.

Solver replay

One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to HENCE.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for June 8, 2024?
The Wordle answer for June 8, 2024 (puzzle #1085) was HENCE.
What does HENCE mean?
HENCE: In the future from now.
Why was Wordle #1085 tricky?
HENCE is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.

Keep solving and playing